FW: Really, Toyota, Really?

[William Fenn]

Back in 1971 I was working for a Two Way Radio shop in Oklahoma City.  One of our customers was the President of the ALPO Pet Food Company.  He had a brand new Lincoln Town Car with an 80 W GE Exec Radio in it and anti-lock brakes with sensors around the wheel rims. He was giving Ford a rough time because his car had a little brake problem.  If he keyed the transmitter while driving down the road the brakes engaged.  If he keyed the transmitter while applying the brakes they released.

 

Ford had been trying to solve the problem for several months.

 

On Tuesday, January 24, 2017 11:14 PM Doug Gentges wrote;

 


Subject: Re: Really, Toyota, Really?

 

Local ham friend had a modern Cadillac with a high powered HF rig installed.  All was well, except when he keyed up on 60m.  The CAN bus ran at 5MHZ, and the RF got into it, causing an immediate shutdown of the entire vehicle.  It required a battery cable disconnect/reconnect to get everything rebooted and running again.

 

Doug

 

On Tue, Jan 24, 2017 at 3:41 PM RICHARD BARTH <w3hwn at comcast.net <mailto:w3hwn at comcast.net> > wrote:

I ran into a similar issue some 19 years ago, when I last bought a Toyota. The manual warned that a transmitter

inside the car could cause it to misbehave.

 

There is a Yahoo group called "Toyotas only" that lets people ask questions about car problems, and I asked 

about putting a ham rig into the car. I got a response from a guy who was both a dealer maintenance tech

and a ham, who said that for my model car the electrical cables ran down the center of the car, so just keep

the ham wiring off to one side. It's worked fine ever since. 

 

Given that cars are a lot more complex these days, you may want to post a similar question to the group for

whatever year and model your machine is.

 

Dick

On January 24, 2017 at 8:31 AM Samudra Haque <samudra.haque at gmail.com <mailto:samudra.haque at gmail.com> > wrote:

I needed to lookup ways to hookup a ham radio mobile to my trusty 2007 Toyota Prius hybrid ... and came across... probably an old old article but the headline grabbed my attention.

 


Two-Way Radio (Ham Radio) Installation Is Dangerous


 

https://priuschat.com/threads/two-way-radio-ham-radio-installation-is-dangerous.110729/

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